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John Sayles Quotes

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

John Sayles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1950

Topics

Style Thought Know Never Up Being

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Andrew Bogut

Cats Black Walking Injuries Seeing

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Maureen O'Hara

Movies Just Like Betting Horses

I've taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you're in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it's on track, that it's going in.

Stephen Curry

Life My Life You Perfect Know Going

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.

Rupert Murdoch

Business Time Curious Me Curiosity

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Judith Viorst

Love Love Is You Lust Desire Want

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

Doug Aitken

History Art Moving Tools Short New

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

Bobby Riggs

I Am Pig Want Number Am

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Asia Argento

Myself Me Few Very Directors Asked

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Eyes People Think Stunning Some

I would love to play Richard III.

Peter Dinklage

Love Play Would Richard III

I'm lucky my parents travel with me.

Paula Creamer

Travel Parents Me Lucky

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Shan Sa

Feel Long Too Much Lived I Feel Too